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Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…
Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...
London: printed by Thomas Milbourn for Dorman Newman, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I have finished, I cannot say perfected, the main work intended, seil. the opening of the ten words, or Arguments of Comfort here laid down in this model or platform by the Holy Ghost, as so many sovereign Cordials to revive disconsolate and fainting Christians over the death of their hopeful Relations, with the several improvements ⟨p. 144⟩which each word (by it self) may afford unto us.
I have finished, I cannot say perfected, the main work intended, seil. the opening of the ten words, or Arguments of Comfort here laid down in this model or platform by the Holy Ghost, as so many soveraign Cordials to revive disconsolate and fainting Christians over the death of their hopeful Relations, with the several improvements ⟨p. 144⟩which each word (by it self) may afford unto us.
But before I do, Manum de tabula tollere, dismiss this discourse, I do observe divers useful Corollaries and Instructions lye couched in the general improvement of these words, Comforting one another, which will serve as so many branches of information, which (without guilt) I cannot omit, and they are ten.
1. 1Sorrow not as men without hope, but comfort one another.] Obs. There is a sorrow for departed friends, which God condemns not. We are forbid an hopeless sorrow, v. 13. but simply to mourn for the loss of our gracious Relations we are no where forbidden. He that hath wrapped up natural affections in our bowels, doth not prohibit the due and moderate exercise of them. Those [Greek or Hebrew], persons without natural affections are in the black Roll amongst the most ulcerous and excrescent part of mankind: To be without natural affections is to do violence against Nature her self, and to violate the law of humanity. Covenant breakers without natural affection] are monsters, not men. Christ himself, who knew no sin, yet being acquainted with all our griefs, even had this kind of sorrow for the dead,